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WELCOME TO NDSU ENVIRONMENTAL
CONSERVATION SCIENCE GRADUATE PROGRAM

The Graduate Program in Environmental and Conservation Science (ECS) program comprises an integrative curriculum that emphasizes the common ground shared by all sciences. There are two tracks: Environmental Sciences and Conservation Biology. See About ECS for more information.
 

NDSU ECS NEWS & EVENTS

Welcome Back to Fall Semester! Watch This Space for News!

The Environmental and Conservation Sciences Program (ECS) will host a Annual Faculty Luncheon and Gathering on:

Date: October 22, 2008
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Place: Memorial Union, Hidatsa Room

Please join us at this gathering to learn the status of the program, to get answers to your questions, and to meet other faculty.

Please RSVP your availability by emailing Ruth Ann Faulkner at Ruthann.Faulkner@ndsu.edu

by October 15.

We look forward to seeing you!
Fall 2008 Core Courses - Environmental History and Environmental Resource Economics - See details below!

 

GREEN BAG SEMINAR SERIES - Fall 2008
Environmental and Conservation Sciences (ECS) Program
12:00 - 1:00 PM Wednesdays in the Hidatsa room. (unless otherwise marked)

Date

Presenter

Title

Sept. 17

Craig Stockwell

Welcome

Sept. 24

Adam Lewis

Antarctic Climate Thresholds: Evidence for Non-Linear Climate Responses and the Final Extinction of Native Biota in the Miocene

Oct. 1

Sujan Henkanaththegedara

Effects of non-native species on native fishes

Oct. 8

Liann Ball, USGS

Biodiversity Monitoring - Making your Monitoring program Smart: Why Numbers Don’t Equal Information

Oct. 15

Room of Nations

Dr. Laura Aldrich-Wolfe
Composition of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities in Forest and Pasture: Implications for Re-establishment of Tropical Forest Trees

Oct. 22

ECS FACULTY ANNUAL GATHERING

Oct. 29

ECS GRADUATE STUDENT MEETING

NOTE: Stevens 203

Nov. 5

Robert Hearne

Characteristics of Effective and Active Water Management Organizations

Nov. 12

Alex Buell

Lake Agassiz Southern Outlet

Nov. 19

Larry Cihacek

Terrestrial Carbon Sequestration Studies in the Prairie Pothole Region

Dec. 3

Mac Butler

Arctic Midges: A Key Link in the Food Chain

Dec. 10

Brian Wisenden, MSUM

Parental Care, Hope, and Habitat-Specific Selection on the Ontogeny of Antipredator Competence in a Biparental Cichlid Fish

TBA

Robert Hearne

Stakeholder Preferences for Water Management Options in the Red River Basin

Core courses taught Fall Semester, 2008:

History 634 History of Environmental Science
Course Number: 7723
Credits: 3
Time: 1:00 - 1:50 PM, MWF
Room: Minard 342
Instructor: Harvey

Econ 681 Natural Resource Economics
Course No. 5215
Topic: Natural Resource Economics
Time: 2:00 - 3:15 T Th
Room: Morrill 105
Instructor: Hearne

ECS 770 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY was taught Fall Semester, 2007.
This course will be offered in Fall 2009.

This course is an introduction to major federal and state statues and regulatory programs that govern environmental quality, pollution control and wildlife management, including legislative enactment, regulatory development, enforcement, federal/state relationship and judicial interpretation.

It is taught one evening per week by T.L. Norgard, J.D., a practicing environmental lawyer with experience in counseling Federal agencies on administrative law issues, and in teaching.

The course announcement poster for ECS 770 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY - send to your friends!

A link to the course page.

LINK TO PREVIOUS EVENTS: Seminars, etc.

For administrative questions on the Environmental and Conservation Sciences Graduate Program:
email Ruth Ann Faulkner at:
RuthAnn.Faulkner@ndsu.edu

DIRECTOR:
For program information: contact Dr. Craig Stockwell at craig.stockwell@ndsu.edu

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